US6547185B2 - Control for a passenger door of an aircraft - Google Patents
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B64—AIRCRAFT; AVIATION; COSMONAUTICS
- B64C—AEROPLANES; HELICOPTERS
- B64C1/00—Fuselages; Constructional features common to fuselages, wings, stabilising surfaces or the like
- B64C1/14—Windows; Doors; Hatch covers or access panels; Surrounding frame structures; Canopies; Windscreens accessories therefor, e.g. pressure sensors, water deflectors, hinges, seals, handles, latches, windscreen wipers
- B64C1/1407—Doors; surrounding frames
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- the invention relates to a control arrangement for a passenger door of an aircraft, whereby the passenger door is movably connected to the fuselage by a support arm, a pivot and stroke (or shift) arrangement guides the passenger door between open and closed conditions, a locking arrangement achieves a locked condition, and a control for door functions has sensors and actuators arranged in connection therewith.
- German patent DE 197 02 084 a passenger door of an aircraft is closed by a closing process that includes a pivoting-in motion and then a stroke motion. Namely, the door is guided along a stroke or sliding shift motion path that is curved essentially conforming to the aircraft outer contour, during the closing process at the end of the pivoting-in motion. The stroke motion path is guided essentially perpendicularly to the pivoting direction of the passenger door.
- the passenger door At the end of the path of a pivoting-in motion and with the beginning of the stroke motion path, the passenger door is lowered by means of a stroke or shift arrangement and guided into a closed condition.
- the closed condition corresponds to a form-locking engagement of stop elements fixed to the door with contact elements fixed to the door frame.
- the passenger door In the closed condition, the passenger door is further locked by means of a locking arrangement, whereby the door is held in a locked condition.
- the locking arrangement works independently of the stroke and pivot arrangement.
- the locking arrangement of the passenger door in the structurally simplest case, comprises a stop element that is movable by a drive shaft into a locking or arresting position.
- the locking is, for example, activated or deactivated by a rotatable drive shaft.
- the above objects have been achieved according to the invention in a control arrangement and method for controlling a door (e.g. a passenger door) of an aircraft.
- the invention is especially provided in or for an aircraft including a fuselage with a door opening therein, a door, a support arm that movably connects the door to the fuselage and enables the door to move between an open position in which the door opening is open and a closed position in which the door closes the door opening, a pivot and stroke arrangement that is connected to the door and adapted to move the door between the open position and the closed position, a locking arrangement adapted to lock the door from the closed position to a locked condition, and a control connected to the pivot and stroke arrangement and to the locking arrangement and adapted to control the movement of the door between the open position and the closed position, and the locking of the door into the locked condition.
- control is an operating sequence control, that is adapted to carry out a sequence of successive door closing steps, and that comprises a plurality of door condition sensors that respectively sense a respective door condition of the door and that switch the sequence from one to a next successive one of the door closing steps responsive to sensing the respective condition.
- the passenger door control is an operating sequence control, which controls the door functions or door closing steps of the passenger door.
- a respective sensor is respectively allocated to each respective door function or step, and each sensor respectively controls the switching of the control sequence further to the next door function.
- function sequences are carried out in a positive or enforced step-wise manner.
- Each respective sensor recognizes the beginning and/or the end of a respective allocated door function and initiates or activates the sensor and/or the actuator for the next door function.
- Respectively only the sensor of the running door function is active.
- the sensor can trigger the further switching or stepping to the next function or step of the door closing process dependent on a path distance already traversed, or certain determined angular positions of the passenger door or of a component of the stroke and pivot arrangement.
- the operating sequence control essentially requires sensors that monitor and initiate or activate the further switching to the next door function.
- the invention entails an extremely small effort and expense with respect to the apparatus, and the control remains very robust and with little sensitivity to interference. Overall, this solution is extremely economical in comparison to a computer controlled solution.
- the above objects have further been achieved according to the invention in a method of closing an aircraft door relative to a door opening of an aircraft fuselage.
- the inventive method includes the following steps:
- step b responsive to the sensing of the step b), shifting the door from the pivoted-in position to a closed position relative to the door opening;
- step d responsive to the sensing of the step d), locking the door into a locked condition.
- the functions or steps of the door closing process are carried out in a fixed, positively enforced sequence, which can be executed automatically without any computer control.
- the process for opening the door is essentially the reverse of the process for closing the door, and the same sensors and the like will be effective for triggering the switching from one step to the next in the door opening process as well.
- FIGURE shows the operating sequence control in connection with a schematic flow diagram of the door functions.
- a representative example passenger door is constructed, for example, as described in German patent DE 197 02 084 C1, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference as background information.
- the present single drawing FIGURE shows a sequence 200 of steps (or door functions) as they arise for a closing process of a passenger door of an aircraft. This sequence of steps in a reversed order is characteristic for an opening process of the door.
- the closing process is triggered by pivoting the door, for example by hand, out of the open starting position 100 of the open condition 1 .
- the door is guided out of an open condition 1 until it reaches a pivoted-in position at the end of a pivoting motion 11 by means of pivoting arrangement 110 , which may simply comprise a mechanical pivot hinge that allows the door to be manually pivoted.
- this pivoting step may be a powered or automated step triggered by pressing a button or otherwise actuating a switch, so that an electric motor pivots the passenger door.
- a sensor 111 feels or senses the end of the pivoting-in motion.
- the sensor 111 is, for example, arranged at the end of the pivoting-in path.
- the sensor 111 When the sensor 111 is contacted by the passenger door, the sensor 111 generates or releases a signal which starts the stroke or shift arrangement 120 , which responsively carries out a stroke or shift motion 12 (corresponds to a sinking or lowering) of the door along a stroke motion path, which is guided essentially perpendicularly to the pivoting direction. Thereby, the passenger door is lowered into a closed condition 2 .
- the end of the stroke motion 12 corresponds to the closed condition 2 that has been reached.
- a sensor 121 feels or senses that the door has reached the end of the stroke motion 12 and therewith simultaneously senses that the closed condition 2 has been reached or achieved.
- the sensor 121 can be a mechanically operating sensor, for example a movable pin, which is pressed against an electric contact upon reaching the closed condition 2 , so that a current loop or circuit is opened or closed, in order to thereby emit a start signal for the locking arrangement 30 .
- pivot arrangement 110 and stroke arrangement 120 form a common arrangement, which is, however, not a requirement.
- the pivot and stroke arrangement 110 , 120 has mechanically or electromechanically operating component groups or assemblies, whereby the door carried by a support arm is guided and/or actively moved into the closed condition 2 .
- the door closes or covers and seals the door opening.
- the sensor 121 senses that the closed condition has been achieved, it automatically triggers or begins a locking of the door by means of the locking arrangement 30 , i.e. the sensor 121 provides a corresponding activation signal to the locking arrangement 30 , which serves to lock the passenger door in its closed condition 2 relative to the fuselage.
- door-mounted locking means such as hooks, for example, reach behind frame-mounted stop means and lock or arrest the passenger door.
- the locked condition 3 of the door is sensed by a sensor 31 . It forms (i.e. generates or releases) a signal which starts the securing arrangement 40 .
- a signal which starts the securing arrangement 40 .
- this may be achieved in that an arresting member or detent is released out of the drive shaft for the securing arrangement 40 , so that the drive shaft can carry out a further rotation and therewith positioning of securing means, such as stop elements, detents, pawls, hooks, latches, bolts, pins etc.
- the securing means of the securing arrangement secure the locked condition 4 . Thereby an unintentional opening of the passenger door in the event of a failure of the locking arrangement 30 is avoided.
- the securing arrangement 40 can be combined with the locking arrangement 30 to form one arrangement. This may similarly be embodied to operate mechanically or electromechanically. There is no requirement to embody and arrange the mechanisms of the individual arrangements strictly separately from each other.
- the locking arrangement and the securing arrangement
- a control for closing or opening the passenger door must carry out or execute the above described functions in a fixedly prescribed sequence 200 of door functions (process steps).
- the beginning or end condition of a respective door function or process step must be reliably recognized and signaled by a respective sensor 111 , 121 , 31 , 41 .
- sensors that sense the respective ends of door functions dependent on path distances already traversed or certain determined positions may be utilized. Thereby, the sensors provide a signal, which respectively activates and/or deactivates the respective arrangements 110 , 120 , 30 , 40 for carrying out the respective next door function.
- this can be achieved mechanically, for example by a pin carried along by the passenger door.
- the pin strikes against and moves a movable stop, which, as a result of its position change, releases a force transmission of an actuator that carries out the next following door function.
- the further switching from one door function to the next door function may alternatively or additionally be carried out electrically and/or electronically. Namely, the switching may be carried out if a defined time-based or process-based further switching condition is fulfilled. one of such further switching conditions corresponds to a signal signaled by the sensor 111 , 121 , 31 , 41 .
- the control for the arrangements or devices of the passenger door relates to an operating sequence control 300 .
- the operating sequence control 300 represents an operating sequence chain of control steps.
- the arrangements 110 , 120 , 30 and 40 may, for example, possess electric motor drives as actuating means, which cooperate through further mechanical force transmission means, to initiate and drive the motion or to guide mechanical elements of the door arrangement into a locked condition 3 or a secured locked condition 4 . If electric motor actuators are not to be utilized, then in a mechanical solution, the locked condition 3 and the secured locked condition 4 are possible by mechanical operation of a hand lever to transition the door out of a start position 100 into an end position 50 .
- a further additional step in the closing process is the activation or arming of the emergency escape slide 6 by operation of an emergency escape slide arrangement 60 .
- This is a door function that is independent of the locked condition 4 , and is started with recognition of the closed condition 2 by means of sensor 121 .
- the emergency escape slide arrangement 60 which is activated by the sensor 121 , brings the emergency escape slide 6 into an active or armed state.
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